Vice-Consul in Canton, in an interview with the writer, aid that this] was the first time such a thing] had happened to German mission workers in Kuangtung. Last January a German missionary, Mr. George Schzamm, his wife and their five-year-old' child were kidnapped in Nam On in southern' Kiangsi, "But that was in Kiangand not in Kuangtung," the Vice-Consul said, "Marshal Li Chi-sen, the then' head of the] Provincial, Administration, at once! despatched a strong force against the robbers who released the family question and fred for their lives Herr Sakowsky said that these German missionaries had been ai and were known far and working for years in the Swatow_
wide for their kindness and benevolence. Even during the troublous days when Communist influence was at its height these workers kad been unmolested.
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